It’s been a productive month for our
production department and the fulfillment of a
dream of mine.
I love being a SoundMan. It’s the reason I went
into business and it is my passion and, if I might
be excused for a moment of self-effacement, I’ve
gotten pretty good at it. Even after 40 years of
being a SoundMan I still find it exciting.
CareySound is the embodiment of that passion for
audio excellence, never being satisfied with the
status quo of ‘state of the art’, always searching
for the perfect wave. That’s where issues arise. In
this age of convergence it’s not enough to focus
one one specialty. To stay in business you are
increasingly expected to provide it all, hence our
growth into staging, backline, lighting, video,
recording and, as I later declared “we provide
everything but the band,” booking agent. As a
matter of fact I was the creator of
One
Call - Simple. And it was a success,
but it did not grow out a sudden interest in
lighting or staging for instance. It was born out
of necessity.
I was being asked to provide these services
and I could not find any willing partners to
provide the requested services so it was left to me
to add them to our repertoire. Now, everybody is
doing everything and the quality of service is
going down the tubes. ‘Jack of all trades, master
of none’ comes to mind and not in the sense of true
polymaths like Leonardo da Vince, Isaac Newton or
Thomas Jefferson. More like “Hi, I’m Larry and this
is my brother Darrel and this is my other brother
Darrel” and their ‘Anything for a Buck’ business as
portrayed on the 80’s sitcom
Newhart .
Suddenly, expertise and experience was taking a
back seat to ‘anything for a buck.’ This has gone
to the extreme where I found a picture yesterday of
my staging specialist operating a video camera on a
competitors web site proclaiming him to be a video
specialist. He is a really great person and a handy
guy willing to tackle whatever needs to be done,
but he is not a video professional, he was just
available. There is a solution, this is where my
dream comes in.
As I announced last week in my post
Old
Friends - New Partners that a great friend
and colleague of mine, Jim Reese and his
company
Joe Mamas Mobile Staging,
is the latest specialist to partner with
CareySound joining
Sterling AV (A/V
specialist), Road King (backline specialist),
Here 2 Hear (recording specialist),
SRO Productions (artist
booking specialist) and
GoodBuyGuys.com
(expendables specialists). All of these
respected, like minded businesses working
together as a team to bring you the best
possible professionals to provide you the best
possible experience not one company trying to
everything to everybody. So when you call
CareySound or any my friends you get an entire
team of professional specialists working their
hardest for you. God has blessed me with a lot
of great friends and any friend of CareySound
is a friend of yours.
One Call -
Production Tagteam Partners - Simple
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